Józef Pociecha is a full professor of statistics, demography and economics at Cracow University of Economics (CUE). For many years he served as the dean of Faculty of Management and vice-rector of CUE. He is elected member of the Committee of Statistics and Econometrics, Polish Academy of Sciences, the chairman of the Committee of Economic Sciences and Statistics, Cracow Branch of Polish Academy of Sciences and currently he serves as the President of Polish Classification Society. He is the author or co-author of 206 scientific publications. His scientific activity is concentrated on theory of statistical methods and its applications in various fields of economic and management research. Especially he is interesting in demographic investigations, theory and applications of data analysis and classification methods, probabilistic approach in auditing and bankruptcy prediction.

